Yep, got this one. ;-) Well, assuming it ONCE DID have a fast or normal boot time, then looks like you just have a flaky mobo. You've ruled everything else out, that is if you've tried another HD and HD cable. There is a chance that mobo just "doesn't like" that particular HD. I've seen a lot of BIOS updates that said things like "fixed boot issue with [HD name] hard drive" and similar. So if that is the case, then either Intel doesn't know about it, or they can't fix it with a BIOS update.
Without seeing the BIOS myself, it's hard to say much about it. But most BIOS's have something called "enable quick boot" or "quick boot up", those should be enabled. There's also many features it may have with regards to "boot time out delay" or similar, that should be 0 or as close to it as possible, and boot order--it may be set to check the floppy first, or optical drive, or "other bootable device" and that should be set to the HD as first boot device. Did you check all these, particularly the last one. http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-009014.htm http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010272.htm http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010256.htm http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-010355.htm http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/cs-009044.htm -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kaulback" To Clint, Hugh, and Wally, I have changed hosts Clint so perhaps this will enable you to see my posts again(?). The computer has the long post regardless of OS installed, I tried WinXP, Win98, and Ubuntu with the same results all around, so it is not an OS or software issue. For all it is the boot time up to the point when the OS layer commences so safe mode is not a concern. Boot logs don't show anything wrong either. Clint this board is an Intel D845WN http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845wn/ and the IDE is PATA. Both controllers work the same and adding an IDE controller didn't help. The BIOS is up to date, but I flashed it once more in case there was something wrong there. No Luck. So we either wait and see or start with something new. Thank you all for your input. Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
